Cablevision app lights up on Kindle Fire

Cablevision has unleashed its Optimum App for the Kindle Fire to give subscribers access to live and on-demand programming.

The app also has additional features such as an enhanced guide, the ability to use the Kindle Fire tablet as a remote control for conventional TVs, and the ability to manage DVR schedules and recordings.

“When we launched the Optimum App on the iPad a year ago, we said we planned to bring it to every screen in the home capable of functioning as a television, and now the Kindle Fire has joined that expanding list, our first Android deployment,” said Bradley Feldman, Cablevision’s vice president of video product management. “We are pleased to enable our app on another device in the home, with an emphasis on program discovery, advanced category filtering, and personalized ratings and recommendations, to help customers further unlock the value of Optimum.”

The app, which Cablevision said has been downloaded more than 1 million times to date, also supports parental controls and closed captioning, as well as program ratings and recommendations.